Undergo training of task team to ensure familiarity with technical tools and startcollaboration betweenteam members

April-June 2014

Utilisation of online documents, tutorials, demonstration videos etc.

Potential running of a training session (conditional upon hosting and/or financial support from a participating organization), which could be undertaken alongside another Big Data event to save costs for participants.

Obtain requisite datasets and undertake analyses in sandbox

July-October2014

Obtain and install data sets (minimum of one from each category outlined in preceding section) Note: process of obtaining datasets that are not freely available (whether paid or not) should be begun at the onset of the project, in order to have them available by this stage of the work.

For each dataset:

study availability of variables

analyse the representativeness of the statistical figures

study other statistical figures available

produce some statistics

document all processes and results on an ongoing basis.

Produce a general model for achieving the goal of producing statistics from Big Data, to communicate effectively with statistical organizations